In Wednesday night’s WXYZ mayoral debate, Mary Sheffield and Rev. Solomon Kinloch Jr. confronted a central question from anchors Carolyn Clifford and Chuck Stokes: “How will your administration combat poverty?”
Rather than default to policing or infrastructure, both candidates pivoted toward child-centered financial proposals — Sheffield invoking the Rx Kids model, and Kinloch unveiling his “Kinloch Promise,” a children’s trust fund of $1,000 annually until age 18.
Sheffield declared, “We are looking forward to exploring Rx Kids program to Detroit that provides direct funding to pregnant moms.”…